I hope everyone had a great long 4th of July weekend!

Riley Blake Designs

I'm sure it's not news to anyone, but I love finding cute fabric and fun quilts and things to sew.  Well, I found a great site, Riley Blake Designs and I love it! Really cute stuff. Anyways, Riley Blake Designs is having a quilting contest! And the prize is a beach cruiser! (my favorite kind of bike)

I have been wanting to do a nice quilt for awhile, I think this might finally get me to do it. Check it out HERE.

PS- I love the dolled up quilt! so cute!

Las Vegas!!!

We just got back from a week long vacation in VEGAS! It was a blast.  It was really hot, but we had lots of fun hanging out in the pool, lazy river and walking up and down the strip.  We did a ton of walking, and therefore we also drank a ton of water! And now here's lots of pictures.  Not all are great because I tried to keep my camera on manual the entire time, so I was able to learn a lot, but it also means not every picture turned out great....

 

Temple art

It has a been a great summer.  I love not having to go to work each day, but I do miss having something to do each day.  So lately I have been playing around on photoshop.  Here's what I came up with today.  I rather like them...

 Los Angeles

 Rexburg

Denver

Breckenridge, CO

This past weekend we had the opportunity to go to Breckenridge, CO with some of our best Denver friends. We stayed in a great house/ mansion and enjoyed visiting the cute town, seeing some horses, enjoying the hot tub and theater room, playing pool, seeing a fox and of course lots of eating.

the entire group- I set the camera on the timer and made Josh run as fast as he could up lots of stairs and he made it! It was great. 

All over main street they had bronze statues.  So of course I had to get a picture.

I also had to document everyone that came with us... 

Colorado Fun

Garden of the Gods

 Manitou Springs, CO

 Rockies Game

quick question

to all the parents out there...

When you pick your child up from school/ nursery/ primary and you ask "How did my child do today?" Do you want to know the truth or do you want to hear they did fine no matter what?

I have wondered this when parents pick up their kids after school and I wonder with some of them if they really care how they did or if they are just saying something to me to pretend they care. I don't know, do you want to know that your child cried and screamed for 20 minutes during rest time, or punched a kid at recess, or talked back to an adult at lunch, or do you just want me to say it was an okay day or it was a good day?